Army Memo re: Summary Interrogation Report

SUMMARY INTERROGATION REPORT

MP #

: 0128 REPORT #: 0128-09 MAR 02
DTG START : 091400Z MAR 02
DTG END

: 091500Z MAR 02

LEAD INTERROGATOR : SSGTOMMINb

b -:a,
OTHER INTERROGATOR(S) :

INTERPRETER(S)

MAPS USED : NONE

1.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS INTERROGATION WAS TO FOLLOW UP ON
INJURIES RECEIVED BY THE DETAINEE AFTER CAPTURE. SSGT
RECEIVED A LIST OF QUESTIONS FROM CID PERSONNEL. THE LIST

OF

QUESTIONS IS OUTLINED IN PARAGRAPH 2.

2. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.

A.

HOW WERE YOU INJURED? SOURCE WAS BEATEN IMMEDIATELY PRIOR
TO BEING PUT ON THE HELICOPTER. HE WAS BEATEN AGAIN ON THE
HELICOPTER AND ONCE AGAIN ON THE GROUND AFTER THE HELICOPTER
LANDED. THE BEATING STOPPED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO BEING TURNED
OVER TO THE GUARD FORCE AT THE BAGRAM FACILITY.

B. WHAT CAUSED THE INJURIES? (PERSON WEAPON OR INSTRUMENT) ­THE INJURIES WERE CAUSED BY FISTS AND FEET.

C.

WHO INJURED YOU? DESCRIBE - WOULD YOU RECOGNIZE THEM IF
SEEN AGAIN? SOURCE WAS BLINDFOLDED AND COULD NOT SEE. ALSO
COULD NOT HEAR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE DOING THE BEATING.

D.

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU WERE INJURED? ON THE GROUND PRIOR
TO GETTING ON THE HELICOPTER, ON THE HELICOPTER, AND AGAIN ON
THE GROUND AFTER THE FLIGHT, PRIOR TO BEING TURNED OVER TO THE
GUARD FORCE FOR THE BAGRAM FACILITY.

E.

WHERE ARE YOUR INJURIES? BODY PARTS -RIGHT SHOULDER

(ABRASION FROM BEING DRAGGED, RIGHT FOOT, ABRASIONS FROM BEING
DRAGGED. WAS BEATEN AROUND THE FACE AND HEAD (HAD A LACERATION
ON THE SCALP), AND HAD CHEST HAIR PULLED DURING THE FLIGHT.

F.

HOW MANY PEOPLE INFLICTED YOUR INJURIES? UNKNOWN.

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G.

WHEN DID YOU GET INJURED? (ON TIME LINE FROM TIME OF CAPTURE
TO ARRIVAL AT DETENTION FACILITY) IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO GETTING
ON THE HELICOPTER, DURING THE FLIGHT, AND THEN AGAIN ON THE
GROUND AFTER THE FLIGHT. PRIOR TO BEING TURNED OVER TO THE

BAGRAM GUARD FORCE.

H.

IS THERE ANYTHING DISTINGUISHING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO
CAPTURED YOU? (VOICE, SIGHT, SMELL OR SOUND) NO.

I.

DID YOU RECEIVE ANY INJURIES FROM COMBAT PRIOR TO YOUR
CAPTURE? NO.

J.

DESCRIBE THE EVENTS FROM TIME OF CAPTURE TO PLACEMENT IN
CELL. SOURCE WAS CAPTURED AROUND 1430 ON THE FOURTH OF MARCH
2002. WAS CAPTURED BY AFGHANI FORCES NEAR HIS HOME. WAS TAKEN
BY TRUCK TO A CHECKPOINT WHERE THEY STAYED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES.
THEY DEPARTED THE CHECKPOINT AND WENT TO SOME TENTS LOCATED
OUTSIDE OF GARDEZ. THAT NIGHT, WAS TAKEN TO A HELICOPTER, BUT
NOT PUT ON. WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE TENT AND THE NEXT DAY WENT TO
A DIFFERENT HELICOPTER. UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HELICOPTER, WAS
BEATEN BY THE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO TOOK CUSTODY OF THEM. SOURCE
WAS PUT ON A HELICOPTER AND WAS BEATEN WHILE ON THE HELICOPTER
DURING THE FLIGHT. UPON ARRIVAL AT BAGRAM (FIELD COMMENT ­SOURCE DOES NOT KNOW WHERE THEY CURRENTLY ARE), SOURCE WAS
THROWN FROM THE HELICOPTER AND THEN WAS BEATEN WHILE ENROUTE TO
BEING TURNED OVER TO THE GUARDS HERE. THE BEATINGS STOPPED
PRIOR TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW GROUP WHO TOOK CUSTODY OF THEM

AND TOOK THEM TO THE DETAINMENT FACILITY.

K.

DESCRIBE THE ACTUAL ASSAULT AND SPECIFICS OF IT (NUMBER OF
TIMES HIT, WHERE STUCK AND DURATION) - THERE WERE THREE SEPARATE
BEATINGS. THE FIRST WAS ON THE GROUND PRIOR TO GETTING ON THE
HELICOPTER, THE SECOND WAS ON THE HELICOPTER DURING THE FLIGHT
AND THE THIRD WAS ON THE GROUND AFTER ARRIVAL AT BAGRAM, BEFORE
BEING TURNED OVER TO THE BAGRAM GUARD FORCE. SOURCE WAS STRUCK
AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF TIMES DURING THE COURSE OF THE BEATINGS.
SOURCE WAS STRUCK MOSTLY AROUND THE FACE AND NECK. SOURCE
SUSTAINED INJURIES TO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND FOOT FROM BEING
DRAGGED. SOURCE IS UNSURE OF HOW LONG THE BEATINGS LASTED.

L.

HOW WAS YOUR FOOT INJURED? BY BEING DRAGGED AFTER BEING
THROWN FROM THE HELICOPTER.

M.

WHAT HAPPENED UPON LANDING? SOURCE WAS THROWN FROM THE
HELICOPTER, AND DRAGGED. SOURCE WAS HIT SEVERAL TIMES TO THE
FACE DURING THIS PERIOD. THE BEATING STOPPED JUST PRIOR TO THE
ARRIVAL OF THE GUARDS WHO TOOK CUSTODY OF HIM HERE.

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